Massimo Palmarini
Bio
Massimo Palmarini is the Director of the MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research (CVR) and Chair of Virology at the University of Glasgow. A veterinarian by training, his research programmes have spanned diverse areas including virus pathogenesis, the host innate immunity to virus infections and the mechanisms of viruses cross-species transmission, focusing lately on avian influenza viruses. His work has been published in major research journals including Nature, Science, PNAS and others. Palmarini's research programme is funded by the UK Medical Research Council and the Wellcome Trust. Massimo Palmarini has been elected Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences, of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and of the Royal Society of Biology and he was a Wolfson-Royal Society Research Merit Awardee. He is a Wellcome Trust Investigator and received an OBE for services to Public Health in 2021.
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